In a blog post last fall at The American Conservative , commentator Rod Dreher waxed apocalyptic about an unpublished but intriguing finding: “Roughly 30 percent of American women under 25 identify as
Fact-checking just requires a little patience, some critical thinking and a few basic skills. stock.adobe.com Share How do you decide what information is true and what is false on the internet? It’s a question I often get from people when they learn what I do. I’m a fact-checker. For more than eight…
The sweater vest descended from the rafters with fanfare. A simple black vest, emblazoned with the number 99, it soon settled above the studio desk. And Wayne Gretzky, arguably the greatest hockey player of all time (hence his nickname “The Great One”) buried his face in his hands. The sweater vest…
In 2018, #MeToo, the hashtag people around the world use to discuss sexual harassment, was blocked on social media in China. Internet users in the country formed a new hashtag to keep raising awareness. They used the characters for rice (米, pronounced “mí”) and bunny (兔, pronounced “tù”). They even…
“To put the point bluntly, I just don’t think that people with guns should be telling you who to vote for,” Orr said. https://t.co/on8435Mlvh
— SEAN ORR #108 (@seanorr) Oct 10, 2022
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Overflowing garbage bins. Crumbling roads and broken water fountains, scattered throughout Toronto. A chaotic downtown core, where cyclists battle with cars for use of the road. For some, the disarray might signal urban decay and rudderless leadership. But to the pranksters behind the recently…
This article is part of our Future of Sex season – a series of features investigating the future of sex, relationships, dating, sex work and sex worker rights; tech; taboos; and the next socio-political sexual frontiers. I recently had two curious conversations at a friend’s wedding. Attempting to…
On her new album ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen,’ the L.A. by way of Cincinnati musician continues to redefine her destiny By • - What’s the best way to smash a violin? That was the question at hand as Sudan Archives spoke with director Zach Sulak. For hours they’d been filming the music video for her…
Why can’t TTC riders use their cellphones on the subway? Ask Bell, Rogers or Telus https://t.co/g5loGLj023
— Lex Harvey (@lexharvs) Sep 27, 2022
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Do some people have built-in protection against a COVID infection? Laura Gao for NPR Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV research. But he and his colleagues were already on the verge of a landmark breakthrough. Several labs around the…
CW: Racist imagery, not discussed by the larger essay One complicating factor in our exegesis of the 9/11/11 Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip is that the strip exists in two different forms with two distinctly different resonances. Last year we discussed a five panel version of the strip,…
America a Prophecy is a new ongoing blog series on Eruditorum Press. It will post annually. On September 11th, 2011, ten years after the events generally known as 9/11, one of the most extraordinary uses of the comics medium ever appeared in the newspaper strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. As a…
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. When I leave my house, I’m first struck by the scent of a dry lawn, its soil desiccated by the heat waves of this past…
What’s Ontario’s favourite animal? The case for the blue jay This may not be the World Series, but the blue jay is ready to step up to the plate and contend for
I love the Try Guys. I have seen every single video they’ve ever made. I’ve forced more than one of my friends to check them out. I’ve had to talk myself out of buying their merchandise more times than I care to admit as an adult in her 30s. It’s fair to say that I’m a fan. So, when recent drama…
Hollywood Park Racetrack, 1938 Hollywood Park Racetrack is gone. In its place is SoFi Stadium, the 77,000-seat home of Los Angeles’ two pro football teams and much else, including the 6,000-seat YouTube Theater. There’s also more to come in the surrounding vastness of Hollywood Park, named after the…
On June 17, 2022, Health Canada decommissioned the COVID Alert exposure notification app, nearly two years after it was launched in the summer of 2020. The app was billed as a way for individuals to alert people when they had come into close contact with someone who had been infected with COVID-19,…
Open source research often relies on social posts that contain videos and images But posts can be taken down by platforms or uploaders at any time. Bellingcat has created the Auto Archiver to help researchers quickly and easily archive online content. https://t.co/CVKyFoVuWR
— Bellingcat…
Today, Icelandic rap is primarily done in the mother tongue and the genres biggest hits since the turn of the century have virtually all been in Icelandic.
Just after 7 one recent morning, Jimmy O’Brien zipped up the elevator to his office in Midtown Manhattan, iced black coffee in hand and one thing in mind: the…
So Flickr is now designing for photos taken in games https://t.co/xWMWIlkNTG and Twitter is going to recommend podcasts https://t.co/jHIIYOcsil What's next, Google becoming an Internet annotation system? https://t.co/2ISAMK4MJE
— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) Sep 19, 2022
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Good news! We have permanently ended late fines for everyone, making the library more welcoming to all Torontonians. We look forward to seeing you! Learn more: https://t.co/srgucXzbrj https://t.co/N0y4UNUAqq
— Toronto Public Library (@torontolibrary) Sep 20, 2022
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An article in @viawesome highlights one of my Vancouver maps… https://t.co/J3u1pOFcXQ
— Conspiracy of Cartographers (@JeffreyLinn) Sep 18, 2022
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"In China, tattoos have long been associated with thugs and “bad girls.” But today, that is changing — and one tattoo artist is helping women express themselves in ink." pleasure to edit this piece for the renamed @thechinaproj(ect, formerly wazzuuupChina) https://t.co/oOVZvDwJ04
— Alec Ash…
The firefighters, the AA meetings, the young women who missed the last SkyTrain and needed somewhere brightly lit to stay safe. Why did so many love a good late-night diner? “We live in a world where it’s hard sometimes. People just need to feel normal.” https://t.co/zJ6yZgagtV
— The Tyee…
Fiction In “Lucy by the Sea,” Elizabeth Strout relocates a formerly married couple from Manhattan to Maine at the peak of the Covid pandemic. Credit...Victoria Maxfield By Sept. 16, 2022 AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop.org When you purchase an independently reviewed book…
Union Station Foodie Aisle offers quick, restaurant-quality meals at Toronto's busiest transportation hub for commuters on the go. Located in the Bay Lower Concourse (look for signs), the revamped space resembles an aisle of five food vendors. Each storefront is accompanied by sleek seating that…
Plant Vogtle nuclear energy facility in Waynesboro, Ga. Credit...Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle, via Associated Press Whenever I write about the
The Queen in Britcoms on Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy https://t.co/phPEJzDm6I
— Phoebe Maltz Bovy 🐩 (@BovyMaltz) Sep 8, 2022
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(BLOG) We used to be able to disagree without thinking you're being controlled by a global elitist cabal https://t.co/6xRp8r0Jhh
— Jeff Jedras (@jeffjedras) Aug 27, 2022
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A message for anyone with vacation time still to use this year - take your time and don't apologize to anyone.👇 Canadians need more paid time off the job. In today's @TorontoStar #decentwork #canlab #union https://t.co/PRF5IZ1bFX
— ShannonDevine (@Progressivista) Aug 28, 2022
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Spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon episode 1 and content warning for references to birth trauma and baby loss. When House of the Dragon premiered last week, marking a long-awaited return to Westeros, the Game of Thrones prequel immediately sparked conversation over a ‘horrifying’ birth scene.…
My latest article is intensely nerdy and talks about special edition transit cards: https://t.co/JlVFast8rm
— Reece Martin (@RM_Transit) Aug 29, 2022
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Baffling. If Toronto’s private park security guards are just there to observe & report, why give them power to intervene & make arrests? But if they are there to intervene & make arrests, then, uh, doesn’t the city already spend $1 billion+ a year on cops? https://t.co/JyQ1zdXG5u…
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